Africa – From Transition to Transformation – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012

January 26, 2012 · By admin

(10 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5)

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As the region’s political and economic evolution accelerates, what leadership and governance models will meet the people’s expectations for the future?

Dimensions to be addressed:

- Strengthening governance systems
- Investing in commodity wealth long term
- Fostering stronger national and regional identities

Alpha Condé, President of Guinea
Jakaya M. Kikwete, President of Tanzania
Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa

Chaired by

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010) and Chair of World Economic Forum Global Issues Group

4 Responses

tiger720

January 28th, 2012 at 8:19 am
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Hello Mr. President of Ethiopia, I would like to invite you to visit Israel in order to strengthen and continue the relationship between Israel ethiopia … i am mesert addisu, you can connect with me on Skype Messenger or Facebook: guanchea@gmail.com
Mewael

January 29th, 2012 at 11:59 am
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I absolutely agree with president Odinga that the first priority must be to ensure that we have democratic institutions.
pm Meles missed this point because he didn’t establish democratic institutions yet.

I really can see Pm Odinga calling up on knowledge based economy like Singapore, Korea, China and India.
This is not happening in ethiopia. Ethiopia is discouraging ,through its political system, education. what meles is demandind is infrasture, good point though. But if ethiopian citizens are not learned and competent, who is going to built this infrastructure? Off course, every infrastructures are made by china and india. We can only involve in labour works with very low payment!! sorry ethiopians. please take time to think .

My sincer message to pm meles and all cadres , is please appreciate and work for quality education. Please change ur bad attitude towards intellects. Don’t consider the majority of the intellects as useless!!!
nub

January 30th, 2012 at 11:45 am
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In order to improve all aspects of life in African countries, first of all there is to base the values of democracy.
The principle of democracy contains all areas of our life, such as: economics, law, human rights, social justice, equality, independent state institutions, freedom of speech.
So, first of all the leaders who spoke in this forum, they should implement the principle of democracy in their country. Can not be one leader or one party controlling the state forever.
Berhe Hagos

January 30th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
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I believe it is in terms of progressive leaders of East Africa this session is initiated.

Ethiopia has been trying to reform and invest in ICT and Telecom in particular heavily the last 8 years. Despite the good will and engagement of Prime Minister Meles the dividend has not been as much. An extreme deregulation like Nigeria is not healthy for the incumbent (consider the case of Nitel), however too much prudence as in the case of Ethiopia can hamper the development of both the incumbent and the telecom sector in the country. I hope the prime minister will learn from the past history and reconsider his position on the issue. Having capacity of 10 or for that matter 80 million, penetration here, penetration there is not the same as providing good services for the mass. Competition is an important driver for good quality of service. Quality of service is to be measured on the aspects of the end customer experience, rather than on the operators own statistics.